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A paramilitary drone strike killed at least 30 people at a displacement shelter in the besieged city of El-Fasher in western Sudan on Saturday, a local activist group said. The resistance committee for El-Fasher said the Rapid Support Forces hit the Dar al-Arqam displacement centre on the grounds of a university. Bodies remained trapped in underground shelters, the committee said ...

A ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas for the Gaza Strip came into effect at noon local time, the Israeli military said Friday, adding that troops were withdrawing to agreed-upon deployment lines. The announcement came hours after Israel’s Cabinet approved President Donald Trump’s plan for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the release of the remaining hostages and of Palestinian ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Fox News interview late Wednesday that he believes all hostages held in Gaza — including the bodies of those killed — will be returned on Monday, following a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. “So much is happening to get the hostages freed, and we think they’ll all be coming back on Monday,” ...

At least 15 people were killed late Tuesday when debris from a massive landslide struck a passenger bus in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, local authorities confirmed. The incident occurred near Bilaspur district, a hilly area that has been battered by continuous torrential rains since Monday. The bus, carrying between 20 and 25 passengers, was travelling through the ...

Ukraine carried out a second consecutive night of large-scale drone attacks on Russian territory, with Russia claiming to have shot down 184 drones, mostly over the Kursk and Belgorod regions, the Russian defence ministry said on Tuesday. This follows one of Kyiv’s largest drone offensives on Monday, when Russia reported intercepting 251 drones in a single day. The attacks have ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their groundbreaking discoveries related to peripheral immune tolerance — a key mechanism that prevents the immune system from attacking the body’s own cells. The announcement was made by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on Monday, ...

At least 42 people died and five others are missing in Nepal following widespread floods and landslides caused by days of heavy rainfall, a government official said on Sunday. “So far, 42 people died in rain-triggered disasters and five are missing,” said Shanti Mahat, spokeswoman for Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, in a statement to AFP. The ...

Hamas said on Friday it would agree to some of the terms in US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the Gaza war, including releasing hostages, but avoided addressing more vexing issues like disarmament and said it would seek further negotiations. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he believed the statement from Hamas showed it was ...

Israel has intercepted the last remaining ship of Gaza-bound humanitarian Global Sumud Flotilla, according to a report by Al Jazeera. The Polish-flagged vessel The Marinette, carrying six passengers, was forcibly boarded by Israeli commandos near the Palestinian coast on Friday morning. Live-streamed footage showed Israeli forces storming the ship as it neared the blockaded Gaza Strip. The Marinette was the ...

Israel has detained over 200 activists from 37 countries aboard the Gaza-bound aid ship fleet, the Global Sumud Flotilla. The organization’s spokesperson Saif Abukasheek announced via Instagram that 13 vessels have been seized at sea. This was reported by Al Jazeera on Thursday. According to the report, Israeli forces attacked the flotilla attempting to break the Gaza blockade and seized ...